Thomson's Technicolor Contributes to Record-Breaking Weekend Box Office

Led by The Dark Knight, Technicolor's Services Were Delivered to
All Top 10 Films in the North American Market
PARIS & BURBANK, Calif.--(Business Wire)--
Thomson (Paris:18453) (NYSE:TMS) - the worldwide leader in video
solutions for the Communication, Media & Entertainment (CME)
industries - today announced that its Technicolor Services division
provided a full array of industry-leading laboratory and digital
services to the top 10 films driving the record-smashing North
American box office for the weekend of July 18 - 20.

Technicolor provided key services to every film in the top 10 of
the record-breaking session. The unprecedented results for a three-day
non-holiday weekend were led by Warner Bros.' The Dark Knight, which
broke all records over a non-holiday three-day weekend grossing an
official $158.3 million. Other new opening films Technicolor served
include Mamma Mia!, and Space Chimps. Mamma Mia! rewrote the records
books and became the top opener in film history for a musical. The
domestic box office racked up an unprecedented $250 million or more in
ticket sales making July 18 - 20 the biggest three-day weekend ever in
terms of total grosses.

Technicolor provided a combination of best-in-class creative and
technical services in both the film and digital arena, including
front-end negative processing and dailies, digital intermediates,
theatrical release printing and digital cinema services. Technicolor
provided digital intermediates and digital cinema services to half of
the 10 highest grossing films, and theatrical release printing to
nearly three-quarters of the top 10 films, through a combination of
domestic and international theatrical release prints.

"We are honored to have contributed to the films that produced the
remarkable results from last weekend's North American and
International theatrical box office," stated Lanny Raimondo, head of
Thomson's Services division. "These results once again establish the
power of filmed entertainment to capture the attention of moviegoers
everywhere, supported by our best-in-class service offerings."

Technicolor provided a near record volume of theatrical release
prints for The Dark Knight from the company's worldwide locations.
Digital intermediates were produced by Technicolor's Los Angeles and
New York facilities, for Mamma Mia!, Hancock, Space Chimps, and Kung
Fu Panda. Technicolor's Rome laboratory provided digital intermediate
film-out services for Hellboy 2: The Golden Army. Technicolor also
provided worldwide film prints for Mamma Mia!, Hellboy 2: The Golden
Army and Kung Fu Panda.

About Thomson: the worldwide leader in video solutions

Thomson (Paris:18453) (NYSE:TMS) is the world leading provider of
solutions for the creation, management, delivery and access of video,
for the Communication, Media & Entertainment (CME) industries. Our
clients are studios, broadcasters, network operators (telcos,
broadband satellite and cable operators) and an increasing range of
professional users of videos. We deliver superior value to our
customers through a unique combination of industry leading
technologies, systems and services, enabling us to offer
differentiated and innovative end-to-end solutions based on a broad
portfolio of Intellectual Property. At the cross-roads of the CME
industries, leveraging our core competencies in video but also audio,
data and voice, we enable our customers to take advantage of the
growth opportunities brought on by the digital convergence revolution.
For more information: http://www.thomson.net.

Press Relations
Season Skuro (Thomson - U.S.)
+1-818-260-4528
season.skuro@thomson.net
or
Martine Esquirou (Thomson - Europe)
+33-1-41-86-58-51
martine.esquirou@thomson.net

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